Palmer said he had taken a realistic approach to his rehabilitation, which ordinarily requires a full year.
One was 200 additional Section 8 vouchers for the fire victims, a much sought-after state benefit that pays two-thirds of a low-income family's rent, and which ordinarily requires a minimum wait of five years.
At least that is the opinion of the State Executive Commission on Ethical Standards, which ordinarily requires that public officials from the governor on down file special disclosure forms divulging their sources of income, assets and liabilities, and other financial data, within 60 days of taking office.
Requests for U.S. visas, she said, which ordinarily take months to process, are now finalized in just two weeks.
According to Justice Breyer's most recent financial disclosure forms, his family owned stock in Nestlé, which would ordinarily require his disqualification.
Maqbool Ahmed has dreams of instant wealth, which ordinarily would require a mighty burst of imagination from a man living in the Bombay slum of Geeta Nagar, a hideous warren of hovels where the air reeks of kerosene and fish, and there are only 24 toilets for 6,000 people.
There's also a suite of fleet management and routing tools, which Tesla says would ordinarily require third-party add-on hardware to incorporate into a car.
And, Dr. Zhou and others said, Dr. Bishop had no papers in high-impact journals, which ordinarily would be required for tenure at major universities.
In Mr. Spitzer's case, prosecutors might charge him with violating the Mann Act, a federal statute that prohibits transporting people across state lines for the purpose of prostitution, or with a crime known as structuring — which involves concealing the nature and source of financial transactions that would ordinarily require currency transaction reports.
Senate rules revisions ordinarily require a 67-vote threshold.
